Hard drive shows up as dig camera card

One of my external hard drives, no matter what I do (re-mount, restart, reboot, etc) shows up as a digital camera card instead of the normal hard drive.
The hard drive functions as normal outside of 1.5 but within Aperture it's treated as a digital camera card and I can't access my folders.
Anybody got any idea how I can get 1.5 to recognize the drive as a DRIVE and not think it's a card?

My guess would be that your drive's folder layout matches, in some way, the design rules for camera file systems, i.e. it has a DCIM folder and all the rest that makes it look like it is a camera storage card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CameraFileSystem

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